A power comparison of robust tests for monotonic trends in recurrent events

Yue, Jiajia
(2018)
A power comparison of robust tests for monotonic trends in recurrent events.
Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

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Abstract

The analysis of the existence and form of time trends in repairable systems is an
important issue in reliability studies. Hence, many trend tests have been proposed
and studied in the literature. There has been a recent interest in the use of robust
trend tests based on estimating functions to test the absence of time trends in the
rate functions of recurrent event processes. These tests are appealing because they do
not require strong assumptions about the nature of the processes, and are powerful
in a wide range of settings. In this study, we consider monotone time trends in
recurrent event data from repairable systems, and develop a robust trend test based
on rate functions of the power law processes. Our main goal is to discuss the power of
robust trend tests as well as to compare their power with other well-known trend tests
under various settings. We therefore conducted extensive Monte Carlo simulations to
compute and compare the power of these tests under various scenarios. Finally, we
analyze two data sets from industry to illustrate the methodology.